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Water Supply Protection
File Number
8200.765
Description
Little Snake River General
State
CO
Basin
Yampa/White
Water Division
6
Date
3/16/1942
Author
D H Christensen
Title
The Little Snake River Valley - Wyoming and Colorado - Water Storage - An Urgent Need
Water Supply Pro - Doc Type
Report/Study
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<br />". <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />!llo'"' <br /> <br />,. <br /> <br />OO~~13 <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />- 32 - <br /> <br />The main line of the Union Pacific Railroad is located 51 miles <br />north of Baggs, and the terminus of the Denver-Salt Lake railroad is <br />located 40 miles to the south at Craig, Colorado. Good oil-surfaced <br />highways connect the valley with each of these railroads and the <br />through highways that parallel them. <br /> <br />CLIMATE -- The climate of the valley is comparatively uniform, <br />although due to its high average elevation, it is subject to cool <br />gummer nights and early frosts in the fpll and late frosts in the <br />spring. The mean annual temperature at Dixon is 41 degrees. The <br />highest mean monthly temperature is 65.8 degrees, occurring in Jut;'. <br />The average frost-free period at Dixon is 102 days. The growing <br />season for the more h~rdy crops is 135 ~~ys. Precipitation at <br />Dixon has averaged 12.38 inches per yoar since 1922. An average of <br />6.64 inches occurs during the period from April to September, in- <br />clusive. In 1934, the driest yenr on record, the Mnillll precipi t.1- <br />tion at Dixon was only 8.6 inchos, of which only 4.3 inchee wns rc- <br />coivod during tho growing season. Although dry farming is practiced <br />at the higher elevations, successful f",rming is dependent on irrign.. <br />tion. <br /> <br />WATER SUPPLY -- Tho dociding factor in past nnd futuro irrign.-' <br />tion development is the water sU'1ply availablo Rnd tho uniformity <br />of stream flow. Intermittent stream flow records have bee~ main- <br />tainod by the U. S. Geological Survey on. the main str~rum and'some <br />tributaries since as en.rly as 1904. Since 1922 a fairly complete <br />record has been maintained of the discharge of the little S~nke Rivc~ <br />at Lily Park, Colorado. :md since 1931 a good record of Sl~.ter For!, <br />near SlRter, Colorado, is available. In 1938 the U. S. Bureau of <br />Reclamation st~rted instp~ling nnd maintaining six st~tions during <br />1938 to 1941. With these records ,wailable, it W,".S possible to <br />establish correlations to determine the monthly run-off at each <br />stntion for the selected period of study of 1926 to date. <br /> <br />The water yenr of 1934 was tho most crucial year on record. ~h~ <br />Little SnnJce River at Lily P"-rk discharged onl;' 14 per cent of not'".~:. <br /> <br />PR2SEHT DEVELOPMSNT -- Irri(;ation W~s originally st"rted in th" <br />Little Snnke River basin to meot the increasing demru1d for winter <br />11 ve stoek feed. The first ,,,,,ter right w"-s obtained in 1875 to ire'-' <br />igate 280 ncres nenr the present town of Baggs. Irrig~tion developec <br />rnpidly Rnd by 1890 there have boen 65 water rights decreed. By <br />- 1910 most of the irrigable land nlong the river nnd lower tributnri.,-, <br />thnt could bo rc:mched by direct diversion Md r.1inim= expense hac <br />boen tnken up, nnd Inter ~djudicntions have been confined to the more <br />mountainous and spotted nrens of the upper tributaries. Burenu vf <br />Reclamntion lnnd clnssification, -- surveys mnde in 1935 .towed that <br />there were about 19,000 ncrGS of irrigR.ted land in the vallee'. <br /> <br />The only i rrig~tion organizntions now oper..'.ting in the "onsin 'tl.' <br />the First Mesa Ditch Company and the West Side Canal Companv. Neh,,,: <br />of these companies has storage facilities and depends entirely on <br />direct diversions, in normal years having an adequate supply in tne <br />spring but suffering severe shortages in the summer months and in dr', <br />years, never receiving an adequate supply. Their combined adjudi-::,.: ':-'1 <br />rights are 68.7 second feet. <br />
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